"Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than it is to laughter." —Victor Hugo, "Hernani" We often retreat from love when it unconsciously arouses painful feelings of sadness. This is not the kind of ...

You may not particularly enjoy feeling sad. You may prefer experiencing other emotions. But if you try to avoid the emotion all together, mental health professionals want you to know not to. People ...

Grief is a cacophony of unpleasant emotions: pain, regret, guilt, remorse, fear, anxiety, all waxing and waning at will. But beneath them all, all the time, is the melancholy oboe that is sadness.

Feeling blue? When sadness strikes, simply imagining it as a person can make the emotion feel less intense, a recent study has found. The authors were inspired by the movie "Inside Out," Pixar's 2015 ...

When you're overcoming sadness, quotes like these can really turn things around. You may think that there's no way out from your grief or no light at the end of the tunnel of your depression — but it ...

Thomas Jefferson defended the right to pursue happiness in the Declaration of Independence. But that’s so 237 years ago. Many modern societies champion everyone’s right to be happy pretty much all the ...

Ruben Östlund has no trouble being “harsh” to his audience. The Swedish filmmaker behind wonderfully discomforting movies like “Force Majuere” and “The Square” is also making crowds squirm with his ...

Is it possible to create a work of pure joy – one entirely free from any trace of trouble or sadness? Henri Matisse believed it might be. “What I dream of,” the pioneering modernist painter explained ...

The singer was inspired by the movie Harvey and a book he read his daughters about sadness when coming up with the music video for "Eyes Closed," the lead single off his forthcoming new album - Ed ...